Infosys Visa Fraud Trial Should Leave CIOs ‘Worried’

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Infosys, the Indian IT outsourcing giant, is headed to court this month, to face allegations that it committed visa fraud to bring workers to the United States, and then tried to intimidate a whistleblower. Immigration and outsourcing experts say recent scrutiny facing the practice means CIOs need to be more vigilant when monitoring outsourcing firms who work onsite, or face harm to company reputation, and even legal consequences and the deportation of staff.

The civil suit, filed by a consultant with the firm, alleges that Infosys improperly used short-term business travel documents, known as B1 visas, to bring Indian workers to the United States to work on client sites. The case will go to federal court in Alabama on August 20, after attempts at a settlement collapsed last week.

Jack Palmer claims he was asked to fill out paperwork for the employee travel visas, falsely representing the purposes of these trips as short visits for meetings. When he refused and reported the violations to the company’s corporate counsel, Palmer alleges Infosys managers retaliated by withholding bonuses and pulling him off job sites. Infosys also did not withhold federal or state taxes from these employees, the suit alleges. Infosys is now the target of a federal criminal investigation, probing its use of visitor visas, the company stated in a corporate filing in May.

“There is not and never has been a policy to use B1 visas to circumnavigate visa policies,” said Danielle D’Angelo, a spokeswoman for Infosys. “We have never retaliated against any employee and any allegations that say otherwise are simply not accurate.”

The practice of improperly using business travel visas is common for outsourcers that send workers to client sites, said Phil Fersht, CEO of HfS, an outsourcing research firm. The H1B work visa–the appropriate document for longer-term onsite work–costs companies thousands of dollars per employee and the federal government has reduced their availability in recent years. “Outsourcers are trying to get staff to work an engagement as quickly as possible and they will work the system as much as possible,” Fersht said.

CIOs contemplating the hiring of on-site outsourcers can expose their companies to grave reputational harm if they don’t ask the right questions, Fersht said. “They should be worried.”

Even if the client company has no knowledge of outsourcer visa policies, it can be named in legal actions surrounding the case, like numerous Fortune 500 companies named in the Infosys civil case documents. “I don’t think any American organization wants their name attached to foreign employees on incorrect visas, in widely publicized court battles,” Fersht said.

To avoid this reputational harm Fersht says CIOs should push outsourcers to ensure that workers brought into the office are on the correct visa. “They’ve got every right to validate the immigration status of every employee sitting in their office.”

James Nolan, a New York-based immigration attorney, says CIOs who use outsourcers could also find themselves in legal hot water if they help facilitate a visa under false pretenses. CIOs may be asked by a foreign outsourcer to provide the “welcome” document needed for a business travel visa, which states that an outsourced employee is coming into the country for a meeting or training. But if he knows the worker will actually do longer-term work onsite, he could be committing immigration fraud, Nolan said. “If it’s ongoing and systematic, they could be prosecuted,” he said.

CIOs who use outsourcers who are not aboveboard on immigration issues also risk being left with projects incomplete, if a crackdown leads to workers being deported, said Ben Trowbridge, CEO of Alsbridge, an outsourcing consulting firm. “If your provider has to have people sent back, an essential system can go down because of the disruption to the team,” Trowbridge said.

CORRECTION: Jack Palmer is a consultant at Infosys. An earlier version of this article referred to him as a former employee.

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Posted 01 September 2010 - 04:57 AM
Alright so I've been busy lately and will be for a while so I'm gonna close down shop on this theme and redirect you to Incognito For CM6 Final released by bgill55 which is the same base theme with a few minor differences plus bgill added other improvements and such.
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Posted 01 September 2010 - 05:16 AM
It doesn't install for me.
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Posted 01 September 2010 - 05:30 AM
Crunchn, on 01 September 2010 - 05:16 AM, said:
It doesn't install for me.
Are you on clockworkmod or sprecovery?
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Posted 01 September 2010 - 05:38 AM
SPR Do I need CW?
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Posted 01 September 2010 - 06:07 AM
Crunchn, on 01 September 2010 - 05:38 AM, said:
SPR Do I need CW?
I'll try to get an SPR version out tomorrow if this doesn't work with it (I'm assuming that you renamed it update.zip and did it the right way, right?).
but I recommend clockwork anyway. SPR is just outdated in comparison..
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Posted 01 September 2010 - 06:09 AM
Gotcha, I installed clockwork and it worked. It looks amazing! GJ!
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Posted 01 September 2010 - 07:38 AM
Crunchn, on 01 September 2010 - 06:09 AM, said:
Gotcha, I installed clockwork and it worked. It looks amazing! GJ!
Glad to hear, but you're gonna wanna install it again. I forgot to put the music apk in the one you downloaded lol. New link in the op.
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Posted 01 September 2010 - 02:46 PM
hey, what is the name of the beautiful widgets clock skin you are using? could you make one that matches the rest of the theme if possible? just installed but im gonna report back any bugs i find. thanks for the upgrade in music player!
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Posted 01 September 2010 - 04:17 PM
jacobk, on 01 September 2010 - 02:46 PM, said:
hey, what is the name of the beautiful widgets clock skin you are using? could you make one that matches the rest of the theme if possible? just installed but im gonna report back any bugs i find. thanks for the upgrade in music player!
LTTRSclock by Tim Porter. I don't think I'm going to make one simply because this one matches well enough for me.
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Posted 01 September 2010 - 08:02 PM
Nice work. If anyone is running Weather and toggle widgets, the dark edge clock looks nice, especially with no background.
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Posted 01 September 2010 - 09:09 PM
Where did you get the Zegoe Light font? And if possible, cant you post a download link for it ?I would really like to apply that font to All the roms that I try out. Thank you.
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Posted 01 September 2010 - 09:51 PM
droidking81, on 01 September 2010 - 09:09 PM, said:
Where did you get the Zegoe Light font? And if possible, cant you post a download link for it ?I would really like to apply that font to All the roms that I try out. Thank you.
I don't really know where it came from. And just download the whole theme. the font's in the /system/fonts/ directory if you unzip it.
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Posted 02 September 2010 - 04:46 AM
is there anyway you can provide .zip's of the Pandora and Music mod themed versions you have here?
I tried extracting the .apk's from this theme and installing (uninstalling pandora and music first) but they wouldn't install, kept getting "application not installed" error. Thanks so much for your work man
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Posted 02 September 2010 - 09:51 PM
I install it and it dont show the unlock and no sound icons.... waht happend?and damnn why i cant get the music lockscreen controls to work
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Posted 02 September 2010 - 10:37 PM
Can't get the WL MM to download
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Posted 02 September 2010 - 10:47 PM
philsfan, on 02 September 2010 - 04:46 AM, said:
is there anyway you can provide .zip's of the Pandora and Music mod themed versions you have here?
I tried extracting the .apk's from this theme and installing (uninstalling pandora and music first) but they wouldn't install, kept getting "application not installed" error. Thanks so much for your work man
After you extract the apks move them to the root of your SD download a terminal emulator delete the old apks from /system/app (make sure you have r/w access) open the terminal emulator use this command
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Busybox install sdcard/Music.apk /system/app
Busybox install sdcard/Pandora.apk /system/app
Let me know how that works
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Posted 03 September 2010 - 01:05 AM
can you reupload the metamorph, as it is not a valid download link, the server doesn't work with that file.
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Posted 03 September 2010 - 01:14 AM
^ I agree its pretty much why I haven't installed this theme yet
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Posted 03 September 2010 - 10:11 PM
jimbo, on 02 September 2010 - 10:47 PM, said:
After you extract the apks move them to the root of your SD download a terminal emulator delete the old apks from /system/app (make sure you have r/w access) open the terminal emulator use this command
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Busybox install sdcard/Music.apk /system/app
Busybox install sdcard/Pandora.apk /system/app
Let me know how that works
Worked perfectly! Thanks man
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Posted 03 September 2010 - 11:55 PM
Sorry everyone, I reuploaded the Metamorph. Link in the OP.
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